Another question on my router tabletop

Well, I’m just about done with the router table (pics to follow soon). I have the top done, the plate installed and the router mounted. Now all I need to do is install the T-track for the fence and a slot for the miter track. The miter track will be easy, although I may decide not to bother, but I want to install some T-track to secure the fence. The routing for the track will be easy enough, but how do I square the end? I don’t want to have an opening. Chisel it out? Leave it and let the fence hide it? Say “to hell with it” and just clamp the fence? Thanks!!

-- Dave, Colonie, NY

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If your going to use a miter square or coping sled you will pretty much need it open on the end. Usually I just do a set measurement form the outside edge. Routers are centered in your work there not like a saw that you have to have it perfectly square with the blade.

I know what to do for the miter track, its the Grooves for the t-track that I don’t understand. If I just rout dados to drop the track in, the dados will be rounded where I stop routing. The t-track will be square on the ends. How will I square off the end of the dado?

Greetimgs Mean Dean: One sugesstion for you: When you rout for the T-Tracks, make the depth of the slots just a hair deeper than the depth of the T-Tracks. That way when you slide a workpiece across the router table, it won’t hang up on the edge of the track, and will slide smoothly…....good luck…... later.